Pocket device for garments



March 21, 1950 H. KAss POCKET DEVICE EOE GARMENTS Filed Aug. 14, 1948 INVENTOR. HARRY KASS- BY n M ATH/EY Patented Mar. 21, 195() UNITED STATES terne TENT OFFICE POCKET DEVICE FOR GARNIENTS Harry Kass, Corona, N. Y.

Application August 14, 1948, Serial No. 44,319

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in apparel of the blouse or analogous type, and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable pocket structure for carrying a writing implement, such as a pencil, in a manner whereby such implement may always be ready for use yet at other times accommodated in the pocket structure and preferably in a special minor compartment of the latter.

The arrangement is such that the pocket structure, with its main interior employable as usual, may be served at its top by a readily openable closure means, as a slide fastener, and the writing implement, as a pencil, may be coupled to the slide-actuator of said fastener, as by a ball-chain,

in a way to prevent accidental loss of the pencil, whether said fastener is in open or closed condition, yet to allow free use of the pencil or the like whenever desired. To avoid having the coupling between the slide fastener and the Writing implement undesirably long, preferably the said implement is one having a readily removable cap, as a screw-cap, normally enclosing the writing end of the implement, so that, with a comparatively short coupling, the implement is substantially instantaneously made available for use merely as a result of turning the cap.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is a partial front elevation of a blouse, equipped with an embodiment of the invention as now favored; with the main portion of the pocket structure shown closed, and with the writing implement in its own special minor compartment.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary View for more clearly showing said embodiment; with the parts as in Fig. l, except that the writing implement is shown as removed from its minor compartment.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, being a section taken on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a similar view, being a section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an exploded perspective View of the separable parts of the writing implement illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawings more in detail, the left breast portion ID of a blouse II is shown 2 as provided with a pocket structure I2 comprise of a main lower subdivision I4 and a top band structurel I5.

A slide fastener I5 is interposed between the bottom of the band structure I5 and the main lower subdivision I4 of the pocket structure, such fastener having a slide I6 on which is rockably mounted a ring Il, this for taking a exible suspension, as the ball-chain I8, for a writing implement.

The main subdivision I ll of the pocket structure is shown as of patch-pocket construction, the same being inturned along its bottom margin and along its two side margins, as indicated at I9 in Fig. 3 in the case of one of said side margins; a single line of stitching 2t being applied as shown. The band structure I5 is of similar construction, along its top and at its two sides, as indicated at 2l in Fig. 4 in the case of the top of said band structure; so that a single line of stitching 22 is applied as shown to secure the band structure to the blouse.

The bottom of the band structure I5 is merely marginally inturned, as indicated at 23 in Fig. Ll,y

and such linturned marginal portion is stitched, as at Ell, to that one of the hook-carrying tapes 25 of the fastener I5 secured to the band structure. The top of the main subdivision I4 of the pocket structure is of similar construction, for similarly securing thereto the other hook-carrying tape of the fastener I6.

The minor compartment for the writing implement is provided as at I4 in the pocket structure by subdividing 01T a portion of the latter, as by a line of stitching 26. Horizontally offset from the upper end of the line of stitching 26, an opening 29 is provided. This opening, as shown, is a slit through the piece of fabric constituting the front wall of the main subdivision Ill of the pocket structure, which slit is finished off button-hole fashion.

The writing implement is herein illustrated as comprising a pencil 3l) which may be of the socalled mechanical type, provided with an external thread 3l, and a removable hollow cap 32 carrying an internal thread 33 matching the thread 3l. Said cap is shown as apertured as at 34 for the passage therethrough of the chain I8.

Ordinarily, with the upper openable mouth of that part of the pocket structure constituted by the main subdivision I4 thereof closed by means of the fastener I6, the pencil 30, with its cap 32 in place thereon, will be stored in the minor compartment It as shown in Fig. l. When it is desired to use the pencil, the same is first lifted out of the minor compartment I4', so as, for instance, to dangle as shown in Fig. 2. Then the pencil is unscrewed from the cap, and is ready for use. If desired, the chain I8 may be of such length that the slide I6' may be swept all the Way Ato the extreme right in Fig. 2, for complete opening of the pocket structure, Without disturbance of the placement of the pencil in its minor compartment I4. If it is desired to have a chain shorter than this, it is a simple matter rst to pull upward on the chain to lift the pencil out of the pocket structure before sweeping the slide I 6 as just stated. Indeed,` then, such slide is more easily manually thus swept than would be the case were the slide to "be directly manually engaged. In any case, to use the pencil, it is not necessary to open to any eX- tent the main interior of the pocket structure.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modications coming Within the scope vof the invention as defined yin ,the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I 1 4 the top thereof, a slide fastener including a pull tab having a ring for closing the top opening of the pocket, said pull tab having a position over the minor compartment when said slide fastener is closed, a continuous chain engaged through said ring, and a pencil having a cap removably mounted over the Writing end thereof, said cap having aligned openings in its outer end through which the portion of said chain, opposite the portion Which passes through said ring, is passed, said chain'beingfof a length vto permit said pencil to be inserted into the minor compartment through the button-hole opening when said pull tab is in its position closing said slide fastener.

HARRY KASS.

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UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date V1,252,268 AJennings Jan. 1, 1918 1,517,120 McDonald Nov. 25, 1924 1,632,660 McDonald June .14, 1927 2,029,207 Wood Jan. 28,1936 2,408,688 Schonthal Oct. l, 1946 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 483,341 Great Britain Apr. 19, 1938 

